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Nnedi Okorafor on Sci-Fi Through an African Lens

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Acata Witches - A Cata Witch?

i want to address the word acata. It's a derogatory term for black americans, but that also includes nigurian Americans as well. And so when i wrote the first one, a cata, which in the book itself, it wasn't that she was called acata witch. I'm going to be the first person to put that word in a title of a book. So  it was me being audacious and so i've kept it. By sunny definitely has those conversations and and has them honestly.

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